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Working on a project and was wondering if there was a way when the owner of a workspace opens up the Airtable app it opens up the interface whilst the table and automations are hidden. Thanks.

Hi, I need help! For my project, I want to email volunteers—selecting specific groups associated with each project (i had de volunteers and the project in airtable allready) and receive their replies in the same place. What is the best way to manage this in Airtable while keeping costs and complexity low?

 Hi!I need to set up an automation for a solution I'm developing that allows volunteers to log their hours via a Google Form, which will then populate the tables. There will be around 100 volunteers. Is it possible to do this using Airtable's free plan?Thank youAlexandra

Why wouldn’t you, as a company who likes money, after years of being asked, just develop a working mobile app? As it stand now the Mobile app is terrible. It loads slowly, the way the UI is set up, you constantly are popped out of your base when you try to move to different tables, etc. I’m not even asking for configuration to be better on app. I can sit down at a desktop to do this. But what is the point of creating tasks/todos in an airtable system if it take 5 min just to load up one linked task in a record? I know there are tons of these posts but they are all closed with no answer. I just want to know WHY. Is there some logistical reason why the UI cannot be developed into a working product? Is Airtable ran by evil goblins who enjoy our pain? Is it a social experiment to see how long we last before switching to a competitor? I’ve used Airtable for about a decade, I’ve moved my entire workplace and a few partners over to airtable because of how much I like the desktop version. But

I have an automation set up to send weekly summaries across all workstreams in a project. I have the Workstream and Weekly Summary as fields. I’m currently inserting them as a List but then it doesn’t really allow me to format the content in the List - only the text I add before/after the List. Is there a way for me to insert the data I want and format it for slack?

In Interface, When you open a record, you see the record details, in there you can see two small arrows on the left that help you go back and forth in records, but if that same record details page, you opened another linked record, the new record details page will not have the arrows.Any one knows why? is there a way to make them appear?The first record details page, it has the arrowsThe second record details page, it doesn’t have the arrows 

I am working on a Crankflo integration where Airtable holds structured operational records, while Crankflo owns execution, proof and approvals.The sync I am considering:- Airtable keeps customer, workflow or task records.- Crankflo turns selected records into executable Todos.- Results and proof sync back to Airtable as status, links and timestamps.- Approval or retry decisions stay visible without duplicating private payloads.For Airtable builders, would you make Airtable the source of truth and mirror execution state back, or keep execution state outside Airtable and only sync summary fields? Which fields do you usually persist for audit?

Hi, I’m trying to set up data backups/redundancies in case of emergencies. I already regularly download CSVs of my base, but want to find a good way to back up my base structure. Is there a way to duplicate a base to an external workspace? Would like to have formulas/fields backed up somewhere in case we lose access to our account.

I’m having an issue getting a hold of sales/support. I’m on a team account right now but was planning to possibly upgrade to incorporate Airtable fully into my business but I can’t seem to get a hold of anyone real. I’ve emailed the sales department twice and I get confirmation emails from what I thought was a real person but I’m assuming it’s AI because they never respond once I email back my availability for a call. I’ve also tried the support chat function but it seems like that button does nothing for me.  

I made a custom dashboard with Omni. It has a mix of content blocks, grid lists/tables and other field types. I don’t see an option for people to edit the data directly for fields that aren’t roll-ups e.g. change a single select field option, enter in a different date in the date field. It looks like the only way to edit the data is either directly in the data layer or by creating a separate form or separate non-omni interface.Is this really the case?

So I have a internal inventory system built out where I record a bunch of different values per each material where the column name is much much larger than the data that goes in the column. As a result each cell is mostly empty wasted space that spreads out my screen with nothing useful, and means that I have to constantly scroll side to side to see all the data I need at one time. Bluntly, this sucks. Is there a way to have angled column headers so that the column name can still be see in full, but the columns can be made only as wide as they need to be? Something like this: 

Hi.I use sum up for my til & payment. Once sold, it alerts me on airtable. If I switch to a BOI payment terminal, will it affect the alerts on airtable? Thanks! 

sono nuova, ho creato un’automazione, ma non mi aggiorna i dati.mi spiego meglio:nella tabella principale ci sono tutti i miei dati, poi ho creato una tabella ARCHIVIO ed una DA COMPLETARE, dove verranno smistati i dati in base ai dati inseriti nella tabella principalequando il cliente avrà saldo 0 e l’ordine sarà contrassegnato con SI, dovrebbe spostarsi in ARCHIVIO, ma ciò non accadegrazie a chi vorrà aiutarmi

Hi everyone,A table in one of my bases (ΣΥΝΟΙΚΙΕΣ) disappeared today, July 23, 2026, sometime after 19:00 GMT+3. It's not in the base trash, and it doesn't appear in the revision history available on the Free plan (2 weeks).I've already emailed Airtable support, but wanted to check here too:Has anyone experienced a table just vanishing without an explicit delete action? Is there any way for a Free plan user to recover a deleted table, or does this require contacting support directly? Does anyone know if Airtable keeps backend snapshots beyond what's shown in revision history?This was manually entered research data for my PhD dissertation, so any pointers would be hugely appreciated.Thanks in advance!Σοφία

In the Interface page, when you click “Share Interface” and go to “Invite via link” under “Invite Collaborators”, the next window has a drop-down to pick to share which interface. It doesn’t make sense AT ALL whichever you pick. The link would share all interface anyway! Then what’s the point having that option here! You mislead people that other interface would not be shared, instead the other information has already leaked!

Hi Everyone,  I have a weird issue with Airtable Forms that I’ve been kicking around for quite some time and wanted to see if anyone else might have a similar experience. I have 2 different forms that I have for our Leadership team that allow them to submit the following content:Multiple photos or video, potentially bigger files (50MB - 1GB) Long Text field Questionnaire that require 4-6 paragraph responses 90% of the time, everything is received without issue, but more notably with the photo submissions, sometimes it doesn’t submit or create the record. I originally assumed it’s user error, where maybe they’re not waiting until they get the confirmation message, but I have Leads insisting that they submitted and saw the confirmation, yet nothing gets recorded. Quick note, I’ve had reports of this happening with both public-access users and Airtable users. This is not a new issue; I’ve been receiving these reports for ~2 years, but it never occurs often enough to be a big issue, and I

Hi,The certificate that `block run` serves — `node_modules/@airtable/blocks-cli/keys/server.crt` — expired on 18 May 2021. Screenshot from Keychain Access attached.Because of this, Development mode doesn't work in the Airtable desktop app on macOS. The app won't accept an expired cert and gives you no way to override it, so you get "Connection error. Please check if your local block is running" even with `block run` clearly listening. Trusting the cert at the system level doesn't help — expiry wins over trust settings.The workaround is to develop in Safari instead of the desktop app, since the browser lets you click through the warning.Two questions:- Could the certificate be regenerated in the next CLI release, with a longer validity this time?- Is there any supported way to point `block run` at my own cert (mkcert, for instance)?Setup: macOS Apple Silicon, Node v20.20.2, blocks-cli 3.0.1, @airtable/blocks interface-alpha.Thanks 

I’m facing an issue with an Airtable automation that works correctly most of the time but occasionally fails to update the target record.My setup:Automation triggers when a record is updated. It finds a related record in another table. It then updates a few fields in that record. The automation is enabled and the field mappings look correct.The problem:Sometimes the automation runs but the target record is not updated. The run history does not always show an obvious error. Running the same update again manually often works. The issue seems more likely when several records are updated within a short period.I have already checked the trigger conditions, record matching, and field mappings. Has anyone experienced this kind of intermittent automation behavior, and is there a recommended way to make the automation more reliable?

Over the last 5 or more years, I’ve entered many thousands of records in our airtable, which I use to manage our small business services.  Hundreds of entries a week, and I’ve always used a spreadsheet style page to do this.  Then I can hit shift+enter, create new record, start typing to find customer, hit enter then tab to next field and do the same for product/service.  This is using a field type that links to other tables for customers and products/services. Today, I go to do this and something changed that makes this same method seemingly impossible.  It’s like each of the fields is now a separate entity that when you enter it, any tabbing or arrow keys just change position on things within the same cell. Now to do the exact same thing I’ve been doing for years, I have to ‘Shift+Enter’ to create a new record, then hit esc to deactivate the cell, then use arrow keys to get back to the start, then navigate to the first cell and hit enter to activate it, press tab until the search + i

Our firm ships hundreds of packages a week and we currently manually track each URL to watch for updates on transit times/ delivery status. We have tried to prompt an AI agent to open the URL and provide tracking updates but it can’t seem to figure it out. But, I know AI Agents have the capacity to Web Search/scrape.  We have put our prompts into ChatGPT/Claude to get assistance with prompting but it seems like its a limitation of the AI Agent. Can anyone advise? Thank you!

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Hello Airtabler, We use Microsoft Teams for both internal and external calls. I’d like to have a button in the interface that lets me make a call via Microsoft Teams. Unfortunately, a button with “Callto:” or something similar doesn’t work. We use Chrome as our browser. I’m almost afraid that this might be due to one of the company’s default configurations. Or does anyone have any ideas? 

Hi everyone,We're currently managing Microsoft 365 mailbox migration projects and using Airtable as a project tracking platform.The migration itself is performed using SysTools Office 365 migration software, which generates detailed CSV reports containing mailbox status, migrated item counts, failures, timestamps, and other statistics.What I'd like to do is automatically push those CSV reports into Airtable so customers can view migration progress in near real time through a dashboard or interface, rather than sending them updated spreadsheets manually.Has anyone built something similar?I'm considering a workflow where Airtable automatically imports the latest CSV data and updates customer-facing views. I'm curious whether people are using Airtable Automations, Make, Zapier, custom scripts, or another approach for this type of reporting.Would appreciate any suggestions or examples from those who have implemented client-facing status dashboards.

Hi! I’m trying to run an automation, I have a repeating group but it only returns 10 records from a view, so is not a conditioning issue, somehow the length is set to 10 so that’s the only records retrieving, also the same problem is now presenting in other workspaces in the past it would retrieve more than 10 records and now it appears like this. Some help please  

Hi everyone!I run a small agency and we are trying to set up an Airtable base to track all of our company's legal compliance documents, FBR tax filings, and incorporation certificates across different regions (specifically South Asia / Pakistan).Right now, we are using a free portal we built for our local market secp portal   to actually calculate our local taxes and generate the required SECP (company registration) documents. But I want to organize all that data and the generated PDFs into an Airtable base to keep a timeline of all our renewals and tax deadlines.Does anyone have a good template or base structure for tracking recurring legal/tax deadlines? How do you guys manage uploading and organizing official incorporation documents in Airtable?Thanks in advance for any tips!